Common domestic animals in Middle-earth. The greatest of them all was Huan, the Hound of Valinor.
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In our world, dogs were bred from wolves, but it's unclear whether this applies in Tolkien's universe. We know that there were hounds in Valinor (specifically, Huan) when Arda was only a few thousand years old, and it's hard to imagine the Valar urgently breeding wolf-stock to produce the first dogs so quickly. |
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